IWG (IWG) Share Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

IWG plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides workspace solutions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers office, coworking and collaboration, flexible and scalable, meeting, and lounges spaces; workplace recovery; memberships workspaces; and reception services and conference products. It provides its services franchise partners, landlords, and property owners under the Regus, Spaces, HQ, Signature, Basepoint, Stop & Work, The Office Operators, BizDojo, Open Office, No18, The Clubhouse, Central Working, and Copernico brands. The company also operates Worka, an easy-to-use app to search, compare, and book office space, coworking, and meeting rooms; Easy Offices, an online broker that helps to find places to work; HomeToWork, a platform that provides access to content, events, and resources from companies to make home a place to work; Rovva, an online toolkit which provides a range of products and services that help the people to take their businesses further; Meetingo, a digital meeting platform; and managed conventional office solutions that provides customized workspaces. The company was formerly known as Regus plc and changed its name to IWG plc in December 2016. IWG plc was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: 177.40 to 183.80
• 50-Day Range: 174.92 to 202.48
• 52-Week Range: 163.50 to 250.60
• Volume: 1.47 million shs
• Average Volume: 11.33 million shs
• Market Capitalization: £1.68 billion
• P/E Ratio: 99.26
• Dividend Yield: 0.57%
• Price Target: GBX 269.80
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

IWG Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

IWG scored higher than 48% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 4.0 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

IWG has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.80, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 4 buy ratings, 1 hold rating, and no sell ratings.

Upside Potential

IWG has a consensus price target of GBX 269.80, representing about 51.0% upside from its current price of GBX 178.66.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

IWG has only been the subject of 3 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of IWG is 99.26, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 39.63.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of IWG is 99.26, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Real Estate sector average P/E ratio of about 30.05.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Due to a projected decrease in earnings for IWG, their PEG ratio cannot be calculated.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

IWG has a P/B Ratio of 22.31. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for IWG.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

IWG has a dividend yield of 0.57%, which is in the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

IWG does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of IWG is 75.29%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.7 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.31

News Sentiment

IWG has a news sentiment score of 0.31. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.76 average news sentiment score of Real Estate companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 18 news articles for IWG this week, compared to 3 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

2 people have searched for IWG on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 100% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.1 / 5
• Insider Trading: N/A

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, IWG insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

27.58% of the stock of IWG is held by insiders. A high percentage of insider ownership can be a sign of company health.

Percentage Held by Institutions

33.61% of the stock of IWG is held by institutions.

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: LON
• Sector: Real Estate
• Industry: Real Estate Management & Development
• Sub-Industry: N/A
• Current Symbol: LON:IWG
• Previous Symbol: LON:RGU
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.iwgplc.com
• Phone: 41 417 23 23 23
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 10,000
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for IWG: GBX 269.80
• High Price Target: GBX 350
• Low Price Target: GBX 199
• Potential Upside/Downside: +51.0%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.80
• Research Coverage: 5 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): GBX 1.80
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 99.26
• Forward P/E Ratio: 26.65
• P/E Growth: -5.59
• Net Income: -£134.02 million
• Net Margins: 0.23%
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: -2.52%
• Return on Assets: 3.01%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: -1,917.40
• Current Ratio: 0.43
• Quick Ratio: 0.45

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: £3.88 billion
• Price / Sales: 0.43
• Cash Flow: GBX 23.47 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 7.61
• Book Value: GBX 8.01 per share
• Price / Book: 22.31

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 938,647,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: £1.68 billion
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 1.56